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Practical  Hygiene  and  Sanitary 
Science 

Cornell  University 
Medical  College 

Cornell  University  announces  the  establishment,  as  a depart- 
ment of  its  Medical  College,  of  a School  of  Practical  Hygiene  and 
Sanitary  Science  in  New  York  City. 

The  Objects  of  this  school  are  : First.  To  afford  to  physicians 
connected  with  local  health  boards  or  public  institutions,  or 
otherwise  interested  in  sanitary  matters,  special  instruction  in  the 
various  branches  of  Practical  Hygiene  and  Sanitary  Science. 
Second.  To  provide  for  the  undergraduate  students  of  Cornell 
both  systematic  obligatory  instruction  in  the  principles  of  Hygiene, 
and  further  optional  courses  of  advanced  study. 

Two  Courses  Annually. — While  the  undergraduate  systematic 
course  in  General  Hygiene  will  extend  through  the  regular  winter 
term,  the  Post-Graduate  Courses  will  be  duplicated  in  two  ses- 
sions of  six  weeks  each  to  accommodate  physicians  coming  from 
a distance. 

The  Fall  Term  will  begin  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  October  and 
continue  for  six  weeks,  except  the  Fall  Term  of  1899,  which, 
having  been  unavoidably  postponed,  will  begin  on  the  first  Tues- 
day in  January  and  continue  six  weeks. 

The  Spring  Term  will  begin  on  the  third  Tuesday  in  May  and 
continue  for  six  weeks. 


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The  Staff  of  Instruction  consists  at  present  of  the  following: 
W.  M.  Polk,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  Dean. 

Rudolph  A.  Witthaus,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry. 

Charles  L.  Dana,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Nervous  Diseases. 

Joseph  E.  Winters,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Diseases  of  Children . 
Alexander  Lambert,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Clinical  Medicine. 
James  Ewing,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Pathology. 

Albert  L.  Webster,  Lecturer  on  Sanitary  Engineering. 

Charles  A.  Meade,  Lecturer  on  Municipal  Sanitation. 

Robert  C.  Taylor,  Lecturer  on  Sanitary  Laws. 

W.  T.  Jenkins,  M.D.,  Co?nmissioner  of  Health — Lecturer  on  Inter- 
national Quarantine. 

Charles  Norris,  M.D.,  Instructor  in  Pathology  of  Infectious 
Diseases. 

Otto  Schultze,  M.D.,  Instructor  in  Gross  Pathology. 

Louis  W.  Riggs,  Ph.D.,  Instructor  in  Chemistry. 

Charles  N.  B.  Camac,  M.D.,  Instructor  in  Clinical  Microscopy. 
William  R.  Williams,  M.D.,  Instructor  in  Hygiene. 

Plan  of  Instruction. 

Instruction  will  be  given  under  the  following  classification  : 
Lectures,  in  such  subjects  ( e.g .,  Sanitary  Laws,  etc.)  as  can  only 
be  taught  in  this  manner,  or  in  amplification  of  other  methods 
of  instruction. 

Experimental  demonstrations  of  sanitary  methods  and  ap- 
pliances. 

Clinical  instruction  upon  infectious  diseases. 

Visits  to  and  demonstrations  of  the  operation  of  sanitary  pro- 
cesses (disinfection  plants,  vaccine,  and  antitoxin  laboratories, 
etc.),  and  visits  to  hospitals,  schools,  demonstration  of  factories, 
model  tenements,  etc. 

Laboratory  instruction. 

LECTURES  AND  DEMONSTRATIONS. 

Professor  Witthaus. 

Water  Supply. — Three  lectures  on  the  uses,  sources,  quantity, 
quality,  sources  and  kinds  of  contamination — Characters  of  pure 


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and  impure  water — Purification  of  water.  (See  also  Sanitary 
Engineering  and  Laboratory  Courses.) 

Air  Supply. — One  lecture  on  the  Composition  of  air  ; sources 
and  nature  of  contamination  of  air  ; simple  tests  for  purity ; 
respiration  ; consequences  of  overcrowding.  (See  also  Ventila- 
tion, etc.,  and  Laboratory  Courses.) 

Food  and  Beverages. — Five  lectures  on  the  composition, 
adulterations,  standards  of  purity  and  nutritive  value  of  milk, 
milk  products,  cereal  foods,  etc.,  and  of  beer,  wine,  and  spirits — 
Putrid  poisons  and  food  poisonings.  (See  also  Laboratory  Courses.) 

Disposal  of  the  Dead. — One  lecture  on  the  Sanitary  and 
Medico-legal  considerations  of  putrefaction,  burial,  cremation, 
embalming. 

Professor  Lambert. 

Infectious  Diseases. — Two  lectures  on  the  nature  and  his- 
tory of  infection  and  theories  of  immunity. 

Methods  of  Disinfection,  etc. — Six  lectures  and  demon- 
strations— Disinfectants,  antiseptics,  and  deodorants— Methods 
of  disinfection  of  rooms,  dejecta,  clothing,  bedding,  carpets,  etc. 
—Isolation  ; quarantine  ; vaccination  ; preventive  inoculation 
— Routine  work  of  Sanitary  officials  with  reference  to  infectious 
diseases. 

Dr.  Williams. 

General  Hygiene. — Twenty  lectures  covering  a general  con- 
sideration of  its  scope  and  practical  application — Hygiene  of 
Schools,  with  special  reference  to  the  eyes  and  curvature  of  the 
spine — General  and  specific  causation  of  Epidemics,  modes  of 
transmission  and  prophylaxis  of  the  various  diseases — Effects  of 
climate  on  health — Occupation,  diseases — Vital  statistics. 

Mr.  Webster. 

Sanitary  Engineering. — Six  lectures  and  demonstrations 
covering  the  following  topics  : Buildings : Selection  of  sites  ; 
character  of  soil ; exposure  ; surface  and  underground  drain- 
age ; preparation  of  site ; excavations  ; foundations ; water- 
proofing ; building  materials  ; heating  ; lighting  ; ' ventilation  ; 


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plumbing  and  drainage  ; sewage  disposal  in  the  country  ; sewage 
filtration  ; cesspools,  etc.  Water  Supply : Protection  against 
contamination  ; storage  ; protection  against  fire  ; distribution  for 
fire  service.  Factory  Waste  and  Nuisance . 

Mr.  Meade. 

Municipal  Sanitation. — Six  lectures  and  demonstrations  on 
the  following  topics  : Street  Cleaning  : Sources  and  prevention 
of  dirt ; factors  in  work  of  street  cleaning  ; systems  and  methods 
in  use  ; snow  removal  ; cost  and  its  relation  to  public  health. 
Refuse  Disposal : Town  and  city  wastes  ; trade  and  factory  refuse  ; 
analysis  ; systems  in  use  ; possible  methods  of  treatment ; cost 
and  results.  Sewage  Systems  and  Sewage  Disposal : Removal  of 
sewage  ; methods  of  disposal  and  their  relations  to  public  health  ; 
cost  and  results.  Public  Nuisances : Smoke  nuisance,  etc. 

Mr.  Taylor. 

Sanitary  Laws  and  Regulations. — Lectures  on  the  statu- 
tory constitution  of  Health  Boards,  their  powers  and  duties 
and  those  of  Health  Officers,  state,  local,  and  metropolitan. 
Nuisances:  what  constitutes  a nuisance;  how  abated;  form  of 
procedure  ; offensive  trades,  slaughter-houses,  smoke  nuisance, 
nuisance  from  noise,  etc.  Legislation  concerning:  A.  Habita- 
tions ; tenement  houses  ; sweat  shops  ; lodging  houses  ; cellars  ; 
factories  and  workshops.  B.  Quarantine,  federal  and  state.  C. 
Purity  of  water  supply.  D.  Purity  of  food  and  drugs.  E.  In- 
fectious diseases  ; vaccination.  F.  Registration  of  vital  statistics. 

CLINICAL  INSTRUCTION  AND  DEMONSTRATIONS. 

Professor  Dana  will  conduct  clinics  on  occupation  neuroses, 
chronic  lead,  arsenic,  and  mercurial  poisoning,  and  alcoholism, 
etc.,  in  Bellevue  Hospital. 

Professors  Winters  and  Lambert  will  conduct  ward 
demonstrations  to  small  sections  on  infectious  diseases,  such  as 
typhoid  fever,  tuberculosis,  malaria,  etc.,  in  the  wards  of  Bellevue 
Hospital,  and  on  contagious  diseases  in  the  Willard  Parker 
Hospital. 


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Visits  with  Demonstrations  will  be  made  under  the  direction 
of  Professors  Winters  and  Lambert  to  Quarantine,  North 
Brothers'  Island,  and  other  hospitals  possessing  isolation  rooms 
and  disinfecting  plants,  to  vaccine  and  antitoxin  laboratories,  etc. 

Mr.  Webster  will  conduct  visits  of  inspection  to  the  tenement 
districts,  model  tenements,  lodging  houses,  and  public  and  private 
buildings,  illustrating  faulty  and  perfected  sanitary  engineering. 

Mr.  Meade  will  conduct  visits  to  the  plants  of  the  Street 
Cleaning  Department,  and  demonstrate  the  methods  of  street 
cleaning  and  the  operation  of  disposal  works. 


LABORATORY  INSTRUCTION. 


Professor  Ewing  will  give  laboratory  instruction  in  the 
microscopic  study  of  tissues  illustrating  principally  the  infectious 
diseases,  as  : Tuberculosis,  syphilis,  leprosy,  pneumonia,  typhoid 
fever,  diphtheria,  malaria,  dysentery,  yellow  fever,  etc.,  in  courses 
of  twelve  two-hour  sessions. 

[These  courses  require  a general  knowledge  of  the  micro- 
scopical appearances  of  diseased  tissues,  in  the  absence  of  which 
students  are  recommended  to  attend  the  undergraduate  course  on 
this  subject,  which  occupies  one  half  of  the  college  year.] 

Dr.  Norris.  Bacteriology — An  elementary  demonstrative  course 
of  twelve  two-hour  sessions  is  provided  for  students  who  are  un- 
familiar with  bacteriological  technics.  It  includes  : Methods  of 
preparing  culture  media  and  of  making  artificial  cultures  and  in- 
oculation ; Demonstration  of  pathogenic  mould  fungi  and  of 
cultures  of  pathogenic  bacteria  ; preparation  and  examination  of 
stained  specimens  ; Discussion  of  pathogenic  action  of,  and  de- 
monstration of  action  of,  antiseptics  on  bacteria  ; Demonstration 
of  methods  of  diagnosis  of  tetanus,  tuberculosis,  and  hydrophobia 
by  inoculation  ; Demonstration  of  elementary  methods  of  bacte- 
riological analysis  of  air,  water,  and  milk. 

For  students  who  are  familiar  with  bacteriological  technique 
there  will  be  special  advanced  courses  in  practical  laboratory 
work,  in  one  or  more  of  the  branches  detailed  above.  These  ad- 
vanced courses  require  daily  attendance  during  the  morning  hours 
for  a variable  period. 

Dr.  Camac  will  give  laboratory  instruction  in  Clinical  Micro- 
scopy in  its  relation  to  infectious  diseases,  in  courses  of  six  two- 
hour  sessions,  including  examinations  of  pus,  sputum,  faeces 
(intestinal  parasites),  urine,  and  blood,  attention  being  also  given 

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to  secretions  from  the  nose  and  throat,  with  special  reference  to 
the  early  recognition  of  diphtheria. 

Dr.  Schultze  will  give  six  two-hour  demonstrations  of  gross 
pathology,  illustrating  the  principal  infectious  diseases,  cases  of 
poisoning,  and  of  violent  and  sudden  death.  The  technique  of 
autopsies,  general  and  medico-legal,  will  also  be  demonstrated. 

Professor  Witthaus  and  Dr.  Riggs  will  give  laboratory 
instruction  in  special  courses  in  the  methods  of  analysis  of  water, 
air,  food,  and  beverages,  and  demonstrations  of  methods  of  ex- 
amination of  unwholesome  meat,  etc.  [These  courses  will  begin 
with  the  Spring  session  of  1900.] 

Fees. 

Fees  for  Lectures,  Visits,  etc. $25  00 

Fees  for  the  Pathological  Laboratory  Courses..  25  00  each. 
u Chemical  Laboratory  Courses.  ...  25  00  “ 

For  further  particulars  address 

Dr.  John  Rogers,  Secretary , 

Cornell  University  Medical  College, 

East  26th  Street,  New  York  City. 

The  University  reserves  the  right  to  make  changes  in  this  curriculum 
as  necessity  arises . 


